Nil results: 82 high schools put on notice

Bhubaneswar: The State Government has served notices to 82 high schools schools which recorded zero results in the recently announced High School Certificate (HSC) Examination.

“Notices have already been sent to all 82 schools where not a single student passed the exam this year. The cause behind the poor show of results will be reviewed after I visit the schools,” said School and Mass Education Minister Sameer Dash on the sidelines of his visit to Board of Secondary Education (BSE) office in Cuttack.

This year, about 3.97 lakh students have passed the Class-X exam, out of which 2.05 lakh are girls and 1.91 lakh are boys. In 82 Schools not a single students passed the exam while in 289 schools all the students passed.